Every day our 6th grader writes or draws the most interesting thing she learned in her note booking journal. We are experimenting with some new publishers, this year. We are using Master Books & Notgrass and a few other curriculum companies. Let me know what you are using below in the comments!
Curriculum for our 6th grader:
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Art History
We are studying about one artist per month/ every 5 weeks. We are using Simply Charlotte Mason’s Picture Studies and some other books. Once a month we paint or draw like our artists.
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Giotto
Leonardo DaVinci
VanEyck
Valazquez
Monet
Degas
Van Gogh
Music History
We are studying one composer every 8 weeks. We listen to music during breakfast and read something about their life at that time.
Bach
Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Mozart
Science
Apologia Astronomy
Math
Math-U-See Zeta*DVD or Online Teacher Video
Logic
The Fallacy Detective
A variety of Logic Games
Writing
IEW Student Writing Intensive B
Vocabulary
Wordly Wise Level 6
Reading
Biographies – Ida Scudder
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Brady by Jean Fritz
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Katy by Mary Evelyn
History
Notgrass America the Beautiful – This includes a set of age appropriate literature which corresponds to the time periods studied, included above.
Government
Bible
The 10 minute Bible Journey